Scotland

National Theatre of Scotland goes out on tour again with David Greig and Wils Wilson's The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, a story inspired by the Border ballads. It's at the Adam Smith in Kirkcaldy on Tuesday and Wednesday, Blair Atholl Hall, Pitlochry next Friday and then touring. Fish and Game reimagine the Cycling Gymkhana of 1901 in a free but ticketed family event at the Kelvin Hall Arena on Saturday and Sunday. Writer and director Stef Smith considers The Silence of Bees, a story of three women and beekeeping at Glasgow's Arches, while DC Jackson's new version of The Marriage of Figaro continues at the Lyceum in Edinburgh. And Tony Roper's classic 1987 comedy The Steamie goes into the Edinburgh festival theatre on Tuesday.

North

Live Theatre and Northern Stage collaborate on a revival of Alan Plater's history of the mining industry, Close the Coalhouse Door; Lee Hall provides a new ending to incorporate the 1980s miners' strike and Sam West directs at Northern Stage, before it heads out on tour. There are two new shows in Liverpool: the Playhouse collaborates with London's Globe on Henry V, directed by Dominic Dromgoole, and the Unity sees the return of Gold Mountain, a multimedia journey from China to Liverpool taken by a man looking for the truth about his father's life. The Exchange in Manchester has got a big show opening this week, too: Miss Julie, a new version of Strindberg by David Eldridge with Maxine Peake as the damaged aristocrat's daughter who dallies with the footman. There's still time to check out Wonderful Town at the Lowry before it goes out on tour. But it's last gasps only for Romeo and Juliet at Hull Truck and Mary Shelley at West Yorkshire Playhouse; the latter will tour. From Tuesday, catch Swallows and Amazons, a great family show, at the Lyceum in Sheffield.

Central

When Peter Cheeseman ran Newcastle-under-Lyme's New Vic in the 1970s, he pioneered documentary theatre. Now, under Theresa Heskins, the theatre returns to that tradition with Alecky Blythe's Where Have I Been All My Life, a new verbatim piece exploring lives and aspirations in the Potteries, an area of high deprivation in North Staffordshire. Also new this week, at the Royal and Derngate in Northampton, Hayley Mills and Belinda Lang star in a stage version of the Charles Dance-scripted movie, Ladies in Lavender; it'll be tasteful, I'm sure. It really is your last chance this weekend for the Fierce festival in Birmingham and Gypsy at the Curve in Leicester. Kate Tempest's lyrical Wasted is at the Shop Front in Coventry next Wednesday. Check out other tour dates here.

Wales

The big news in Wales is Tim Price's The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, the story of the US soldier accused of passing information to WikiLeaks. John E McGrath directs for National theatre Wales and it opens in Haverfordwest on Wednesday. Details of dates are here. You have until tomorrow to see the rarely performed Rattigan comedy, Less Than Kind, at Clwyd Theatr Cymru; it's followed by the Citizens' wonderful production of David Greig's delightful The Monster in the Hall. Idle Motion's The Seagull Effect creates an emotional squall at the Welfare in Swansea on Wednesday evening.

South

Belgian experimentalists Ontroerend Goed are back in the UK with a new show whose title announces its ambition: it's called A History of Everything, and opens at the Drum in Plymouth after being a hit at the Sydney theatre festival earlier in the year. Miracle's Tin moves from The Count House in Botallack to the Wharf in Tavistock. Howard Brenton's lively Anne Boleyn is at the Hall for Cornwall in Truro from Tuesday. Is Hound of the Baskervilles innovative or tricksy? Make up your mind at the Brewhouse in Taunton on Tuesday and Wednesday; The Cherry Orchard continues at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol. Krapp's Last Tape and A Kind of Alaska continue at Bristol Old Vic, and Angel Exit Theatre's The Secret Garden finishes its tour at the Lighthouse in Poole. From next Friday, The Way of the World, with Penelope Keith, joins Uncle Vanya in the season at Chichester, while Chris Goode's story of growing up gay is at the Burton Taylor studio in Oxford. And Swallows and Amazons sails into the Marlowe www.marlowetheatre.com in Canterbury.

London

It's pretty quiet week owing to the post-Easter lull. Long Day's Journey Into Night opens on Tuesday at the Apollo, Spymonkey's James Bond-meets-Greek tragedy spoof, Oedipussy, comes into the Lyric Hammersmith, and Forest Fringe takes up residence at the Gate with a very exciting programme which you can check out here. The Roundhouse's Circusfest continues with Cirkus Cirkör's Undermän, which we'll also be streaming live on the Guardian site (check back during the week for more details). The Dark Room at the New Diorama is Brecht's Arturo Ui set in a girls' school. And at the end of the week you can get a first glimpse of Wild Swans at the Young Vic, and see Inua Ellams's Black T-Shirt Collection at the National.

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